- ISO 3166
EH- Main language + region
ar-EH- Currency
- MAD · Moroccan Dirham
- Region
- not grouped
Western Sahara
Western Sahara has 652.3K people. Arabic is the most widely spoken language at 100%, one of 1 language CLDR lists here. Arabic is official nationally. A product shipping here defaults to ar-EH.
Market summary
Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.
People online
—
No World Bank internet estimate for this territory, so the online market cannot be sized here. CLDR puts the population at 652.3K.
Income per person
—
GDP per capita in current US dollars, World Bank Open Data, most recent reported year. A rough guide to spending power, not revenue.
Can pay online
—
No Findex survey covers this territory, so payment readiness is unknown.
Languages
1
Arabic 100%
Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 1 of them is official nationally.
English proficiency
—
Not in the EF EPI 2025 table. Absent is not the same as low.
Adult literacy
50%
0%world median 95%100%
Share of adults who can read, as recorded in CLDR territory data. Low literacy shifts a product toward icons, audio, and video before another language.
What people speak
Shares include second languages, so totals can exceed 100%.
Most spoken in Western Sahara
share of 652.3K people
- Arabicofficial100%652.3K
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Bars are scaled to the largest language rather than to 100%.
CLDR records Arabic in 34 territories and 378.6M speakers in total; Western Sahara holds 0% of them, and the rest come with the same translation. The Arabic profile maps the whole footprint.
Day-one requirements
What the interface needs for the main language spoken here (ar-EH).
Plural categories
6
Word-forms a translator writes for counted text ("1 item", "5 items"). More than English's two, so counted strings carry extra variants.
Script family
Arabic
Bundle a Noto-class webfont that covers this script. OS defaults vary.
Reading direction
Right-to-left
Use logical CSS properties (padding-inline-start, etc.). Wrap interpolated LTR with <bdi> or FSI/PDI.
Date
21 أبريل 2026
Short: 21/4/2026
Time
6:30 م
Week starts Mon
Currency
1,234.56 د.م.
1,234.56 in MAD · Moroccan Dirham
The engineering behind the flags: Bidirectional text: why the dollar sign wanders in an RTL string · RTL layouts: what flips and what doesn't · Font fallback: why the OS picks the wrong glyphs for this script · Plural rules: why each category needs its own translation